by Lorenzo Mattotti, Neil Gaiman
This review can also be found at MissKatiEllen & Goodreads. After hearing about The Sleeper and the Spindle (review HERE) I was so excited when I heard Hansel and Gretal was also on its way, plus Gaiman had teamed up with a different illustrator. I don’t want to say I was disappointed, because I d...
Having liked The Sleeper and the Spindle, I assumed I’d enjoy another reworked fairy tale by him. Be warned, Gaiman doesn’t really reworkHansel and Gretel like he did withSleeping Beauty, he just enlarges on it, adding minor changes along the way. Oddly I enjoyed this story more than any other by ...
There is something about the story of Hansel and Gretel, so eerie and extraordinary, it was a story so surprising good. So many parts of that story I found disturbing growing up, compared to other fairy tales. I think that is why I cherished this story; it wasn’t all sweet and pleasant like other fa...
Actual Rating 2.5There was nothing earth shattering about this telling, nothing very different from the original, except that in this telling the woodcutter’s wife was the biological mother of the children.The illustrations were eerie, ghostly, old-timey, and were my favourite part of this tale. It ...
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